Wales High School - Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)

Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)

The Virtual Learning Environment, commonly abbreviated to VLE, is an online system run by the school internally. For the start of the 2012–13 school year, the new system was on the net to replace the school's previous online carrier, the portal for learning. Every comprehensive school in the Rotherham area use this system as it is run by the Metropolitan council. However, due to constant complaints about simultaneous technical issues, the school's ICT departmental teachers decided it would be a favourable idea to run their own system, and shut down the Wales High School portal, meaning it wouldn't go down due to the server being in the school rather than a few miles away. On the VLE, both students and teachers are able to access. Students can customize their own profile, which, much to the students avail, contained their timetable. Many other customizable blocks are available to enhance the learning experience. The main purpose is for pupils to access things at home to revise over, if need be, and to enrol in courses specified by their subject teacher. This contains fun quizzes on the topic, and key sheets which are downloadable in their specified format, or PDF to look at and make sure they know what they are doing in the topic, just in case they were absent for the lesson or weren't quite sure.